W3C Developers<p>Web Fonts let pages use fonts on demand without local installation. The <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://w3c.social/@w3c" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>w3c</span></a></span> Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) speeds up <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/font" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>font</span></a> loading and cuts data use by sending only needed parts in multiple requests <a href="https://w3c.social/tags/timetoimplement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timetoimplement</span></a><br>▶️ <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/IFT/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">w3.org/TR/IFT/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>IFT avoids layout issues (ligatures, etc.), enabling efficient, fine-grained font loading, even for complex scripts like Indic or Arabic.</p><p>Demo: <a href="https://garretrieger.github.io/ift-demo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">garretrieger.github.io/ift-dem</span><span class="invisible">o/</span></a><br>Explainer: <a href="https://github.com/w3c/IFT/blob/main/IFT-Explainer.md" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/w3c/IFT/blob/main/I</span><span class="invisible">FT-Explainer.md</span></a></p><p>Feedback welcome! <a href="https://github.com/w3c/IFT/issues" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/w3c/IFT/issues</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>